Sgt Chambers is famous among the LRRP's. So intelligent, well spoken and a wonderful representative of these brave men who were rarely given their due and the respect they deserved. Thassnk you, Sgt. Chambers.
@npxmnpxm3 жыл бұрын
This man should be a senator.
@jennifernichols94682 жыл бұрын
President
@birderjohn33963 жыл бұрын
I understand being against war and getting mad at the politicians who enable it, but getting angry at and insulting soldiers seems insanely stupid to me.
@jonwavy62423 жыл бұрын
I understand it towards the solders who promote war, and war crimes,
@NotKimiRaikkonen3 жыл бұрын
Especially 18 year old draftees.
@emilioesquivel68832 жыл бұрын
Why soliders only follow orders of usa or racist parents
@birderjohn33962 жыл бұрын
@@emilioesquivel6883 What a stupid question.
@sammythemc Жыл бұрын
If some guy signed up to do whatever I told him, and I told him to do something awful like set your house on fire, should people get mad at me, the guy who signed up to take my orders, or both of us? Without the soldiers enabling the politicians it wouldn't matter what horrible inhumane plans they came up with. I understand not making that connection when you're an idealistic teenager getting a draft notice and going where they tell you, but other young people at the time were treating it as a real dilemma, fleeing the country or going to jail on the basis of their (now largely vindicated) conviction that Vietnam was a horrible, stupid conflict to support. Sgt Chambers's objection here is largely over what the service members in country had to endure compared to the nice cushy lives these kids were living, but he also makes the point that Vietnam ended not because of a military defeat but because of waning political support, a lot of which should be attributed to the anti-war movement. How many thousands of servicemembers were spared the experience the Sergeant had over there because of these kids and their "ignorance"?
@americafirst99453 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your service sir! Great man!
@Operator11B3 жыл бұрын
I could listen to this man for hours
@michaeljones80793 жыл бұрын
Except that not one single soldier died for our freedom and safety. Only the corporate interests. All these years later this much is evident.
@anthonytesta344 Жыл бұрын
God bless sir
@blloobboo5833 жыл бұрын
I need more tom chambers
@alswann27023 жыл бұрын
A friend of mine had the same experience at Frisco airport. He was spit on.
@828enigma63 жыл бұрын
Should have slapped the teeth out of the spitters. To this day, I would still do it.
@wintercook29 ай бұрын
First and foremost: Thank you for your service. We civilians owe you a debt that cannot be repaid. I am an anti war civilian who will never understand how anyone can blame the soldiers that WE sent into battle. Can anyone explain to me the thinking of one who would blame the soldier? That's not a rhetorical question. I don't get it. Do they think we don't need a military? Others think it's the government that sends our people to fight where they shouldn't. Government does crazy stuff, but only the crazy stuff that will get them reelected. If the public allows it, they need to know that ignorance does not absolve them of responsibility. If you don't know history, then you condemn us all to repeat it.
@markkoons74883 жыл бұрын
I've admired the brief bits of interviews with you that I've seen so far. I would, however, like to make a couple of points counter to your experience of the anti-war movement. Personally, I joined the Vietnam Veterans Against the War upon my return from a three year enlistment, 26 months of which were at the 249th Medevac. I knew something about the sacrifices daily made... as did every other member of the VVAW. We knew, and so did most of the student opposition, to the war. We knew about the horseshit politics involved and, later, about the specifics of the nauseating deals, the motivations and profits being made by the politicians and arms merchants. In a country where civilians have the duty to control the military, what was the duty of those of us with those understandings?
@cajunpipesmoker15193 жыл бұрын
I don’t mind protesting the politicians... but when you spit and sneer at returning soldiers who laid down their lives for our country (good war or bad war) you’ve crossed the line and are worse than a pile of dog shit.
@markkoons74883 жыл бұрын
@@cajunpipesmoker1519 I'll buy that and I think anyone who would treat or even think of a soldier that way has no concept at all of the sacrifices made. Even as a returning medic who took a three year enlistment to be a field medic, I was called a fascist by a smug little draft dodger at the University of Wisconsin. That's been more than 50 years ago and the injustice of it still cuts.
@hiker27425 жыл бұрын
You are 100% correct! Thank you!
@cajunpipesmoker15193 жыл бұрын
He is correct! Our military did not lose the war! The politicians would not let them win!!!!
@datsunlambchops46243 жыл бұрын
There was nothing to win. Kinda like Afghanistan.
@jazzercise3002 жыл бұрын
@@datsunlambchops4624 big facts
@Doodlebob5633 жыл бұрын
I can respect the veterans while still speaking out against the Vietnam war as well as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They were fucking pointless wastes of life and money, American's freedoms weren't at risk and didn't need to be defended.
@johnyurick87853 жыл бұрын
Correct but the people who want to take your freedoms away are in the Whitehouse right now........telling the sock puppet Biden what to do 🦠🤢
@Doodlebob5633 жыл бұрын
@@johnyurick8785 what a stupid comment
@lastknowngood02 жыл бұрын
Hooah Sarge. At this late date you bring new clarity to the outcome of the Viet Nam War. Now I understand WHO lost the war. The ARVN lost, not the USA Army! THE POLITICAL ASPECT of the war plus the so called Vietnamazation was responsible for our leaving Viet Nam. I was on active duty during Jan / June 1960 & active reserves till Dec 1965. They often said we would be deployed to Nam but the 77 Infantry Div, 10 Armored Recon was never activated until after I was Discharged In Dec 1965!
@fhowland3 жыл бұрын
Smart guy. Thank you for your service.
@bobarnold59924 жыл бұрын
Tom Chambers had a thick spine, a cool head & a lot of guts...no bone spurs on this man.
@forwardobserver20483 жыл бұрын
Or asthma
@ManDuderGuy3 жыл бұрын
Verbal IQ allupinthere. I do appreciate these recordings.
@harrywalker16213 жыл бұрын
They should make a movie about this veteran
@cheyennea48843 жыл бұрын
Where is the full interview? All I can get are these short clips
@doughopkinsjr3 жыл бұрын
Is the video in its entirety available to watch?
@soldtobediers5 жыл бұрын
San Francisco literally reaping the ''Liberal Defecation'' for that; amongst other things. 12418
@JohnSmith-jz4pk3 жыл бұрын
Why wouldn’t anyone be “anti-war” by default ? This guy makes little sense. The wAr was pointless and a war crime
@jazzercise3002 жыл бұрын
America attemped to invade North Vietnam. The NVA and VC pushed them back. Sounds like a defeat to me. You can talk about how withdrawing was a political decision all you want but that decision was made because of the bodies, because of the money, because of public opinion. It was one of the first asymmetrical wars and a war of attrition and the Vietnamese held on longer. I do think it's asinine to blame to soldiers (especially considering most were drafted) but at the same time how can compare the daily life of a soldier to that a protesting civilian when said civilian is protesting that said soldiers are over there at all and they didn't need to be. That's a ridiculous line of thinking. Like I said though, directing anger towards soldiers who didn't volunteer for the war is insensitive and cowardly. A lot of folks from that time period may defend America's actions in the war but most historians would regard the Vietnam war as a huge blunder and embarrassing defeat of the American military. I have no idea how someone could defend that war. Not sure when Vietnam did anything to us (look up Gulf of Tonkin incident and what actually happened before saying anything. Even if it did go down like we said it did we still had no business there. What would America do if Iran had ships off the coast of Florida?). The greatest irony of all this is that to this day Vietnam still is under the rule of their communist party but at the same time they're one of the few countries that actually like America. Liberia, South Korea, Vietnam rank highest in the world when it comes to the general pop. view of America. Absurd as the war itself. I'd like to also mention I can criticize the war without insulting this guy. I don't really think much of him except he seems very intelligent and he probably woulda been more useful to this country in public service or something or the sorts instead of being stationed in the middle of a jungle all because of some ideological pissing contest. I don't pity him, not saying that, but I do feel sorry for him. He shoulda been one of those people he was talking about, going to movies, restaurants, sleeping in a nice bed after.
@emilioesquivel68832 жыл бұрын
🇺🇸 got ran out of Korea vietnam Iraq and Afghanistan = realiity
@jazzercise3002 жыл бұрын
America's are too proud to admit that tho.
@emilioesquivel68832 жыл бұрын
@@jazzercise300 not to proud to stupid usa people are nothi?ng but war mongers who hide behind Jesus the Mexican and Nazareth
@Kevin_403 жыл бұрын
god makes freedom possible, not killing and war. every living thing is born free.
@GLF4263 жыл бұрын
God doesn't make freedom possible. The free will he gave us coupled with the bravery and sacrifices made by those using their free will to make decisions and take action is what makes freedom possible. Every living thing is born with an inherent RIGHT to freedom. But many... maybe even a majority... are not born free. I thank God for those men and women
@TrollBenable4 жыл бұрын
the vietnam war wasnt about protecting american freedom. please
@PHUSHEY3 жыл бұрын
Not directly.... only in ideology.
@alswann27023 жыл бұрын
Idiot
@KteeTV3 жыл бұрын
Hell even the act that got the americans in the war was false ..it's sad but they caused the deaths of all those men ...of course ppl will protest such a farse
@TrollBenable3 жыл бұрын
@@KteeTV NO MAN IM A PROUD MURICAN. USA. USA.
@jamespfitz3 жыл бұрын
What was it about?
@geoclark70703 жыл бұрын
Living in a idea from another mans mind.
@huianhkamun45493 жыл бұрын
The money that paid for war should have went to the indigenous so called black Americans who are the native Americans also.
@romegarcia90523 жыл бұрын
Wtf u onn bout, african Americans were brought to North America in early 18th century